diff --git a/dev-ml/uucp/Manifest b/dev-ml/uucp/Manifest
index 1f4b1f92cdee..ee58f0769859 100644
--- a/dev-ml/uucp/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ml/uucp/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST uucp-16.0.0.tbz 509732 BLAKE2B a9618c15c7460d350707c34b0413fc472999dd2b597f543564e3d26db13d03c28288ea37ba10046d514a5508e6c2050f0a8504033d35be65bb3c0143fc91e120 SHA512 5c06d8cadb2b011b1e4ac52e14732044f6ab8e9c11e1184950ff8629b26bd173f1264247623a635b8aa4033e287bfe42d709994f19a3d79f7cbfd20158aa4992
+DIST uucp-17.0.0.tbz 516263 BLAKE2B f29fb762002c14b86486d574438d064183b03c4f42d7d5853764ce1b708ab456af54ef4fa3748272d1e3e57048248ac3a9a7971a86e5a1f07c467204e72c2ca6 SHA512 c2b5c883c2ed1ee8e7bc9102339dfbca5940e68cd2af59a10abc827fb64c91ad03f85cfc12d4c79605c10e9b3a90743267af8b069143fefeeff6658ec8ed843f
diff --git a/dev-ml/uucp/uucp-17.0.0.ebuild b/dev-ml/uucp/uucp-17.0.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..631bc68a4922
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-ml/uucp/uucp-17.0.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Copyright 2019-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit opam
+
+DESCRIPTION="Unicode character properties for OCaml"
+HOMEPAGE="https://erratique.ch/software/uucp https://github.com/dbuenzli/uucp"
+SRC_URI="https://erratique.ch/software/uucp/releases/${P}.tbz"
+
+LICENSE="ISC"
+SLOT="0/${PV}"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-ml/topkg
+	dev-ml/findlib
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-ml/ocamlbuild
+"
+
+OPAM_FILE="opam"
+
+src_compile() {
+	ocaml pkg/pkg.ml build		\
+		--with-uunf false		\
+		--with-cmdliner true	\
+		|| die "failed to run the pkg/pkg.ml ocaml compilation script"
+}